Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica eBook

Plutarch, Thes. 32: Hereas relates that Alycus
was killed by Theseus himself near Aphidna, and quotes
the following verses in evidence: `In spacious
Aphidna Theseus slew him in battle long ago for rich-haired
Helen’s sake.’ (4)

Fragment #12 —­ Scholiast on Pindar, Nem.
x. 114: (ll. 1-6) `Straightway Lynceus, trusting
in his swift feet, made for Taygetus. He climbed
its highest peak and looked throughout the whole isle
of Pelops, son of Tantalus; and soon the glorious
hero with his dread eyes saw horse-taming Castor and
athlete Polydeuces both hidden within a hollow oak.’

Philodemus, On Piety:
(Stasinus?) writes that Castor was killed with a spear
shot by
Idas the son of Aphareus.

Fragment #13 —­
Athenaeus, 35 C:
`Menelaus, know that the gods made wine the best thing
for mortal
man to scatter cares.’

Fragment #14 —­
Laurentian Scholiast on Sophocles, Elect. 157:
Either he follows Homer who spoke of the three daughters
of
Agamemnon, or —­ like the writer of the
“Cypria” —­ he makes them
four, (distinguishing) Iphigeneia and Iphianassa.

Fragment #15 —­ (5)
Contest of Homer and Hesiod:
`So they feasted all day long, taking nothing from
their own
houses; for Agamemnon, king of men, provided for them.’

Fragment #16 —­
Louvre Papyrus:
`I never thought to enrage so terribly the stout heart
of
Achilles, for very well I loved him.’

Fragment #17 —­
Pausanias, iv. 2. 7:
The poet of the “Cypria” says that the
wife of Protesilaus —­
who, when the Hellenes reached the Trojan shore, first
dared to
land —­ was called Polydora, and was the
daughter of Meleager,
the son of Oeneus.

Fragment #18 —­
Eustathius, 119. 4:
Some relate that Chryseis was taken from Hypoplacian
(6) Thebes,
and that she had not taken refuge there nor gone there
to
sacrifice to Artemis, as the author of the “Cypria”
states, but
was simply a fellow townswoman of Andromache.

Fragment #19 —­
Pausanias, x. 31. 2:
I know, because I have read it in the epic “Cypria”,
that
Palamedes was drowned when he had gone out fishing,
and that it
was Diomedes and Odysseus who caused his death.

Fragment #20 —­
Plato, Euthyphron, 12 A:
`That it is Zeus who has done this, and brought all
these things
to pass, you do not like to say; for where fear is,
there too is
shame.’

Fragment #21 —­
Herodian, On Peculiar Diction:
`By him she conceived and bare the Gorgons, fearful
monsters who
lived in Sarpedon, a rocky island in deep-eddying
Oceanus.’

Fragment #22 —­
Clement of Alexandria, Stromateis vii. 2. 19:
Again, Stasinus says: `He is a simple man who
kills the father
and lets the children live.’